Fuxi is a culture hero of Chinese mythology, counted as the first mythical emperor of China, a Taoist deity and one of the Three Sovereigns. With his sister and wife Nüwa he is credited with creating humanity and with inventing music, hunting, fishing, domestication and cooking. The two are often described with human faces and the bodies of snakes. Tellings of creation differ: in one, the giant Pangu's body became the world, and from it came Huaxu, mother of the twins Fuxi and Nüwa; in other myths Fuxi himself was the creator. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Fuxi and Nüwa lived on Kunlun Mountain; two fires they lit became one, they married, and they shaped clay figures that came alive as the first humans. Fuxi is said to have originated the bagua, the eight trigrams, after observing eight building blocks of nature: heaven, earth, water, fire, thunder, wind, mountain and lake. Tradition holds that their arrangement was revealed to him in the markings on a dragon horse, sometimes said to be a tortoise, that emerged from the Luo River.

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Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.